Director, Global Sterility Assurance and Environmental Monitoring

The Director, Global Sterility Assurance and Environmental Monitoring is accountable for enterprise-wide governance, oversight, and technical authority for all sterilization, sterility assurance, and environmental monitoring activities. This role leads a centralized sterility and environmental monitoring function responsible for reviewing, approving, and maintaining control of sterilization and environmental monitoring processes across their full lifecycle, from design and validation through routine manufacturing, change management, and remediation. This position serves as the global authority for sterility assurance, ensuring products are manufactured in a validated state of control, risks are proactively managed, and regulatory expectations are consistently met across internal manufacturing sites and external contract sterilization providers.

The Director, Global Sterility Assurance is responsible for governance and oversight of all sterilization modalities (e.g., EtO, gamma, e-beam, moist heat, dry heat, hydrogen peroxide, sterile filtration, aseptic processing), all environmental monitoring programs and strategies at global sites, internal manufacturing sites and external sterilization suppliers, new product introductions, validations, routine operations, deviations, lifecycle changes, and global regulatory and standards compliance (FDA, ISO, EU MDR, etc.).